Place:

Carrington
Cheshire

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
described Carrington like this:

CARRINGTON, a township-chapelry in Bowden parish, Cheshire; on the Mersey, 3¼ miles NW of Broadheath r. station. Post Town, Ashton-on-Mersey. Acres, 2,333. Real property, £4,480. Pop., 521. Houses, 102. The living is a vicarage in the dio. of Chester. Value, £375. Patron, the Earl of Stamford. The church is good. There are two Methodist chapels and a n. school.

A Vision of Britain through Time includes a large library of local statistics
for administrative units.
For the best overall sense of how the area containing
Carrington has changed, please see our
redistricted information for the modern district of
Trafford.
More detailed statistical data are available under
Units and statistics, which includes both administrative units
covering Carrington and units named after it.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth,
History of Carrington, in Trafford and Cheshire | Map and description,
A Vision of Britain through Time.